Quotes by James Bryce

James Bryce

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

Careers

Political

Quality

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, ‘Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

Gentleman

Mistake

President

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

California

Country

San Francisco

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Communication

Keys

Understanding

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

Equality

Rights

Thinking

If you have enough room for your books, you don’t have enough books.

Book

Enough

Rooms

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

Dream

Europe

Nature

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

America

Liberty

Pride

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

Atheism

Citizens

Matter

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Book

Life Is Too Short

Reading

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Quotes by James Bryce

James Bryce

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, ‘Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

If you have enough room for your books, you don’t have enough books.

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

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